Vaisakhi
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Vaisakhi is a major spring harvest festival and Sikh religious celebration marking the formation of the Khalsa and the Punjabi New Year.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vaisakhi canonical | 18 |
| Baisakhi | 7 |
| Vaisakhi of 1699 | 2 |
| Khalsa Sajna Divas | 1 |
| Punjabi New Year | 1 |
| Sikh New Year | 1 |
| Vaisakh Sankranti | 1 |
| Vaisakhi (in historical context) | 1 |
| Vaisakhi 1699 | 1 |
| Vaisakhi festival | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T502454 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vaisakhi Context triple: [Northern India, hasMajorFestival, Vaisakhi]
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A.
Makar Sankranti
Makar Sankranti is a major Hindu harvest and sun festival marking the transition of the Sun into the zodiac sign of Capricorn, celebrated across India with kite flying, feasts, and ritual bathing.
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B.
Teej
Teej is a traditional Hindu monsoon festival, especially celebrated by women in northern India, marked by fasting, swings, folk songs, and prayers for marital bliss and well-being.
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C.
Diwali
Diwali is a major Hindu festival of lights celebrating the victory of good over evil and light over darkness, marked by prayers, feasts, and fireworks.
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D.
Bihu
Bihu is a major Assamese festival in India that marks seasonal changes and the agrarian New Year with music, dance, and community celebrations.
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E.
Mahavir Jayanti
Mahavir Jayanti is a major Jain religious festival celebrating the birth of Lord Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vaisakhi Target entity description: Vaisakhi is a major spring harvest festival and Sikh religious celebration marking the formation of the Khalsa and the Punjabi New Year.
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A.
Makar Sankranti
Makar Sankranti is a major Hindu harvest and sun festival marking the transition of the Sun into the zodiac sign of Capricorn, celebrated across India with kite flying, feasts, and ritual bathing.
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B.
Teej
Teej is a traditional Hindu monsoon festival, especially celebrated by women in northern India, marked by fasting, swings, folk songs, and prayers for marital bliss and well-being.
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C.
Diwali
Diwali is a major Hindu festival of lights celebrating the victory of good over evil and light over darkness, marked by prayers, feasts, and fireworks.
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D.
Bihu
Bihu is a major Assamese festival in India that marks seasonal changes and the agrarian New Year with music, dance, and community celebrations.
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E.
Mahavir Jayanti
Mahavir Jayanti is a major Jain religious festival celebrating the birth of Lord Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sikh festival
ⓘ
festival ⓘ harvest festival ⓘ public holiday ⓘ religious observance ⓘ |
| associatedWithCommunity | Khalsa ⓘ |
| associatedWithGuru |
Guru Gobind Singh
ⓘ
Guru Nanak ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Anandpur Sahib ⓘ |
| basedOnCalendar |
Nanakshahi calendar
ⓘ
traditional Punjabi calendar ⓘ |
| celebratedBy |
Punjabi people
ⓘ
surface form:
Punjabis
Sikh people ⓘ
surface form:
Sikhs
|
| celebratedInCountry |
India
ⓘ
Pakistan ⓘ |
| celebratedInRegion | Punjab ⓘ |
| celebratedInReligion | Sikhism ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
Punjabi New Year celebration
ⓘ
agrarian festival ⓘ |
| followsCalendar | solar calendar ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Guru Gobind Singh ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Vaisakhi
ⓘ
surface form:
Baisakhi
Vaisakhi ⓘ
surface form:
Khalsa Sajna Divas
Vaisakhi ⓘ
surface form:
Vaisakh Sankranti
|
| hasRitual |
Akhand Path
ⓘ
Amrit Sanchar ⓘ Nagar Kirtan ⓘ community langar ⓘ kirtan ⓘ processions ⓘ visiting gurdwaras ⓘ |
| hasSymbol |
Khanda
ⓘ
Nishan Sahib flag ⓘ
surface form:
Nishan Sahib
|
| marksEvent |
Vaisakhi
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Punjabi New Year
Khalsa ⓘ
surface form:
formation of the Khalsa
spring harvest in Punjab ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Indian diaspora
ⓘ
Pakistani diaspora ⓘ Sikh people ⓘ
surface form:
global Sikh diaspora
|
| occursOn |
13 April
ⓘ
14 April ⓘ |
| relatedFestival |
Bihu
ⓘ
surface form:
Bohag Bihu
Pohela Boishakh ⓘ Puthandu ⓘ Vishu ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance |
commemoration of creation of Khalsa Panth
ⓘ
renewal of Sikh faith and identity ⓘ |
| season | spring ⓘ |
| typeOfHoliday |
regional public holiday in parts of India
ⓘ
religious and cultural festival ⓘ |
| yearIntroduced | 1699 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Vaisakhi Description of subject: Vaisakhi is a major spring harvest festival and Sikh religious celebration marking the formation of the Khalsa and the Punjabi New Year.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Northern India
this entity surface form:
Baisakhi
this entity surface form:
Vaisakhi of 1699
this entity surface form:
Baisakhi
this entity surface form:
Vaisakh Sankranti
this entity surface form:
Khalsa Sajna Divas
this entity surface form:
Punjabi New Year
this entity surface form:
Vaisakhi of 1699
this entity surface form:
Vaisakhi 1699
this entity surface form:
Vaisakhi festival
this entity surface form:
Baisakhi
this entity surface form:
Baisakhi
this entity surface form:
Sikh New Year
this entity surface form:
Baisakhi
this entity surface form:
Baisakhi
this entity surface form:
Baisakhi
this entity surface form:
Vaisakhi (in historical context)